The Harrington Letters (Classic Reprint)

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Herewith are presented certain letters of the Harrington family which were made available by the courtesy of Mr. William Weldon Huske, of Fayetteville, a descendant of General Henry William Harrington, of Revolutionary fame. It is thought by the editor that this collection all but com pletes the extant manuscript records of the Harrington fam ily up to 1815, and particularly those of General Harring ton himself up to his death in 1809. A mass of references and a large amount of his correspondence appears in the North Carolina State Records . Likewise Alexander Gregg, in his History of the Old Che raws makes acknowledgement to Col. H. W. Harrington for valuable manuscripts from his father's collection illustrative of his public service and the Revolutionary history of the Peedee country. Nearly half a hundred of his letters, to or from General Gates, Governor Richard 'caswell, Colonel Marion, John Penn, Alexander Martin, and others, are published by Gregg. These, together with the matter in the State Records concerning Harrington make a fairly complete summary of the Revolutionary services of this patriot and gentleman of the early days of our republic. Gregg notes that the pri vate journal and a large part of the other papers of General Harrington were destroyed by the Tories in a pillage of his home during the Revolution. The few letters by him and to him in the present collection are, for the most part, personal, and written after the Revolutionary epoch.

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